How many babies are born in Ghana each year?

An estimated 904 thousand babies are born in Ghana in 2026, according to the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection. That is about 2,475 a day and 0.68% of all births worldwide.

What is the birth rate in Ghana?

Ghana has an estimated 25.3 births per 1,000 people in 2026, and a total fertility rate of 3.26 children per woman.

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How many babies are born in Ghana?

904 thousand babies born in Ghana in 2026 — 0.68% of all births worldwide, and the 34th largest of any country. UN projection

2,475births per day
103per hour
2per minute
25.3births per 1,000 people
3.26children per woman
35.7 millionpopulation

Plus or minus about 6%. These years have not happened yet or have not been counted yet. They are the medium variant of the UN's projection, not a record of births that took place.

Births in Ghana through history

Estimated annual births in Ghana, 0 CE to 2026, on a logarithmic scale. The shaded band on the left marks the years where births are modelled rather than recorded. The marker sits on 2026.

Every figure refers to the area inside Ghana's present-day borders. Before 1800 the state did not exist in its current form — see how borders are handled.
Year	Estimated births	Population	Per 1,000	Evidence
1 CE	~9.6K	~230K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1000	~36K	~880K	41.4	Modelled estimate
1500	~71K	~1.7M	41.4	Modelled estimate
1800	~89.8K	~2.02M	44.5	Historical reconstruction
1900	~121K	~2.72M	44.5	Historical reconstruction
1950	244K	5.08M	48.0	UN estimate
2000	705K	19.6M	35.9	UN estimate
2024	892K	34.4M	25.9	UN projection
2026	904K	35.7M	25.3	UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Ghana are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 2026, at about 904K. That is roughly 94 times the estimated ~9.58K births a year in 1 CE.

At 3.26 children per woman, fertility in Ghana is above the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

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Where these numbers come from

2026 figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium variant. Earlier years come from the UN's estimates (1950 onward), Gapminder's reconstructions (1800–1949) and a model applied to HYDE population estimates (before 1800). The full chain is set out in the methodology, and every source is listed on the sources page.